Abstract:
Overview of new features and performance improvements found in MySQL 5.6 and Percona Server 5.6. through practical approach of why does it matter for you and to what production use cases do they benefit.

Bio:
Peter managed the High Performance Group within MySQL until 2006, when he founded Percona. Peter has a Master's Degree in Computer Science and is an expert in database kernels, computer hardware, and application scaling.

You are invited to the Triangle Linux Users Group's annual Holiday Demo Party ! Come and socialize with other like minded Free and Open Source enthusiasts from all over the Raleigh Durham Chapel Hill area. We plan to do catering again like last year.

Please RSVP using the above form. This will enable us to budget food and space.

Demos
Share your passion by bringing a project or product to show off. As we get more demos we'll try to keep the list up to date!

New Search for MediaWiki
Nik Everett
Day job is writing a new search for Mediawiki which is pretty cool. Can show it off if anyone cares to see it.

LibreOffice Base Demo
Jeremy Davis
I have built a couple of LibreOffice Base databases I would like to share. One I use weekly to publish the Triangle Area Career Development Newsletter. The DB helps to manage and gather meeting info of our local groups and builds the newsletter formatted with HTML. I have built a nice task tracker to show off as well, which was developed over time at my work place in MS Access but then recreated with LibreOffice Base as a project to compare the two. I will demonstrate valuable timesaving features of the awesome LibreOffice Base program, which comes free with most Linux distros.

Crypto Key Signing
Learn about cryptographic keys and how to sign and verify GPG keys. Some people also want to do CA Cert Assurances. Don't forget to bring multiple forms of ID and you may also want to generate your key prior to the meeting.

TriLUG Infrastructure
The TriLUG servers provide all sorts of services to our members. This workshop will continue our effort to update and improve these services. This is open to anyone who would like to learn and participate in maintaining our shared resources.

RSVP & Building Access
Everyone should meet in the lobby promptly at 10am, and we'll go upstairs together. Latecomers should check in at the security desk and will be escorted from there.

Important: Red Hat security needs a list of attendees 24 hours in advance. Please RSVP. There may be some wriggle room here, but this is the first time we have tried this venue.

Cryptography has been in the news a lot lately. We'll start with a quick overview of some of the major recent headlines, specifically about the NSA's attempts to circumvent and break encryption and what experts are recommending to stay as secure as possible online. This will be followed with a high-level overview of cryptography. We'll look at where it's been made easy to use, and were it's not so easy. Then we will dig into the details of using GPG from the command line, to encrypt documents and to verify software packages.

Bio:

Sean Alexandre is a Senior Software Developer at SAS Institute, where he's been working on different front-end applications for the past 12 years. Lately his interests have been on Linux and free software, with a focus on distributed systems and defensive security.

Sponsor:
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